I looked at some beds yesterday. There is a 3 foot strip at the very front that is 2 feet wide and another 5' pie shape bed in a corner. The customer wants low maintenance like all of them. They want to not have to touch anything but once in spring and once in fall to spruce everything back up. I figure i would get a create murtle and put in the pie bed with hostas around the bottom of it since it seems every other house in the neighbor hood has hostas and create murtles. Now the front bed I was going to keep with the hostas but I wanted to plant something behind them that will grow to about 3 or 4 feet tall and give the same kind of fell as the create murtle being over the hostas in the other bed. What ideas do ya'll have for that plant?

Mark Bogart

03-26-2008, 07:30 PM

Post some pics of the site. Try to pick shrubs/trees that stand out. Don't go with what everyone else has. It starts to look like the cookie cutter theme.